Paladin Tank

[reman]

I see quite a few of us 5 boxers are using a pally tank going through instances. Just want to share something. While pally tank is great for holding multi trash mobs, I do have problem with generating burst dmg for threat as well as sustaining a certain amount of threat when my mages are nuking crazy. Particularly, have problem with two ogre bosses (second bosses in Shattered Hall & Shadow Lab). After the aggro reset, I either don't have enough mana to grab them back, or even if i do, they would just ignore my attack.

So after digging around, I found the problem - my spell dmg is toooo low! Most of the threat for pallies are coming from holy dmg rather than white dmg. All my gears are warrior tanking plate with plus defense, stam, and avoidance. On top of that, I have been using a melee tanking weapon all this time (and trying to grind for Sun Eater ). Solutions? I should be using a caster sword with +spell dmg for tanking since that gives the most spell dmg per piece. Only wish I could find this out earlier. The summery I find for paladin tank on Wowinsider

* Get 10-12k hp at level 70
* Get 490 Defense
* Get 250 Spell Damage
* Get your total of dodge/parry/block to 100% (with holy shield/redoubt)
* Put up Retribution Aura
* Cast Greater Blessing of Sanctuary on yourself
* Pull with Avenger's Shield
* Judge Seal of the Crusader, then keep up Seal of Righteousness
* Judge Righteousness every 8 seconds
* Consecrate
* Holy Shield
* Win big loots, have your party love you

http://www.wowinsider.com/paladin-tanking

[Nepida]

Yep, get crystalforged sword or the caverns of time sword. Enchanted with 40sp it will last you a long time.

Also http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.com/ is one of the best pally tanking sites I've seen.

[aetherg]

Your total dodge/parry/block only needs to be 90%; 490 defense will give the boss a 10% chance to miss against you.

Also, 490 is the number for mobs at level 73 or ?? (boss). If you're only doing 5-mans, the max you will see is 72. In that case, you only need 485 defense, and you don't even have to worry about the total dodge/parry/block, since only mobs 3 levels higher than you can land crushing blows.

If you're doing heroics, the new badge gear is a great way to get some spell damage along with tank stats.

[marvein]

Yep, get crystalforged sword or the caverns of time sword. Enchanted with 40sp it will last you a long time.

Also http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.com/ is one of the best pally tanking sites I've seen.

just another thumbs up for this site. lots and lots of great info there about paladins and their roles.

[reman]

Great info. Crystalforged Sword seems to be the way to go. But Depleted Sword seems like a random grind. I am thinking

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32450

which should be easier to get.

[marvein]

Great info. Crystalforged Sword seems to be the way to go. But Depleted Sword seems like a random grind. I am thinking

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32450

which should be easier to get.

pretty sure there are a number of very good reasons to use a sword as a prot pally. like bonuses from talents and such.

[aetherg]

Crystalforged sword is pretty easy to get on the AH. And it's really not that hard to grind yourself. Just do the demon banishing quest as a group, and on average one or two of you should get a darkrune, which you can use to do Shartuul.

Takes 15 minutes to do the event (very easy if you are familiar with the strat), and you get a guaranteed rare/epic. The depleted sword has a reasonable drop chance; on average it should take you a week of doing that (30 mins per day) to get a sword. And you get lots of other items along the way that you can keep or sell.

I don't think sword v.s. mace affects any talents.

If you are looking for something else, this is good too:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30832

[Remote]

You actually need 104% combined dodge/parry/block/miss to be uncrushable.

[Nepida]

You actually need 104% combined dodge/parry/block/miss to be uncrushable.

It's actually 102.4%

[voodoogriff]

Actually I don't think there is really any reason to go swords over maces except that there are more caster swords than maces.